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Hadoop is Important, but it’s Only a Part of the Picture, says IBM’s Tim Vincent
Tim Vincent, an IBM Fellow and CTO of Information Management for the company, provided his unique take on Big Data in a Monday interview hosted by Wikibon’s Jeff Kelly. In the first part of the discussion, Vincent focuses on the Big Data solutions that his company officially launched earlier this month. He starts with PureData, ...
MuleSoft Picks Up ProgrammableWeb, Puts Latest Funding Round to Work
MuleSoft has set out to become the ultimate “go-to destination for APIs and integration,” an ambitious goal made more attainable by the $37 million it secured in a recent Series E funding round led by NEA. This morning, the San Francisco-based SaaS integration firm showed its investors that it’s making good use of their money. ...
Self-Serve BI Gets a Dell Upgrade, Plugs Into Amazon + Microsoft Analytics
Dell just unveiled a slew of new features for its Toad Business Intelligence Suite, a database management platform that helps enterprises extract insights from both traditional and non-traditional data sources. Toad 2.0 ships with a number of enhancements, including new data connectors for Microsoft Analysis Services and Amazon’s DynamoDB and Redshift database services. The reworked ...
Another Open-Source Win with Tokutek’s MySQL Storage Engine
This week Tokutek released the source code of TokuDB v7, the latest version of its flagship storage acceleration engine for MySQL and MariaDB. The company also announced a new commercial offering targeted at enterprise customers. TokuDB Community Edition comes with a number of bug fixes and tweaks for the two supported databases, as well as ...
IBM Expands DevOps Footprint with UrbanCode Acquisition
The methodology that has become known as DevOps is proving to be a key driver towards gaining the competitive edge in the enterprise, on par with the Big Data and cloud computing movements that have swept through the market in recent years. According to the IBM Institute for Business Value, 70 percent of companies that ...
Join Us Tomorrow for a Live Peer Incite Discussion: Amazon and OpenStack Wrestle over Enterprise Infrastructure
Amazon is sending ripples through the industry with its aggressive expansion into the enterprise space, a highly lucrative market that is gradually warming up to the public cloud. Tomorrow, a Wikibon “Peer Incite” panel will discuss the company’s portfolio and its ongoing campaign against traditional data center vendors with Jason Mendenhall, the executive vice ...
The Cloud Review: New Services for Consumers and Devs
This past week featured several important updates. A service with the potential to disrupt the cloud locker space emerged on Kickstarter; Microsoft finally launched Windows Azure Infrastructure Services, and Xamarian unveiled its latest offering on the heels of a milestone acquisition. In addition, Jamcracker updated its cloud brokerage service. The Kickstarter project that got the ...
How To Build Smarter Flash Arrays? OpenStack APIs Help You Capture the Flag
SiliconAngle and Wikibon set up shop at this week’s OpenStack Summit in Portland to bring you the latest on the project, including news and insights from the executives who attended the event. David Cahill, the director of strategy alliances for SolidFire, stopped by theCube and provided us with his insider’s take on the company’s recent ...
Why is Flash the Future of IT? Krishna Nathan, VP of Storage Development for IBM, Explains
Systems and storage are finally coming together, and IBM is at the forefront of this potentially revolutionary transition. Krishna Nathan, the head of development for Big Blue’s storage business, explained how flash is unifying the data center in a recent interview with Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante. Nathan says that storage has historically been ...
Closing the Gap on Big Data Education, Cloudera Teams with Top Universities Around the World
Data scientists are a rare commodity in today’s job market, and this is not expected to change anytime soon. In a recently published study, the McKinsey Global Institute predicted that demand for professionals with Big Data know-how will continue to exceed supply for the foreseeable future. “By 2018, the United States alone could face a ...